Golden Helix upgrades high-performance genetic data analysis
software

12 August 2010

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Golden Helix, Inc. has announced the third instalment of its
SNP & Variation Suite (SVS) 7 software, designed to increase the
productivity of genetic researchers and to appeal to an expanded market.

SVS 7 is an integrated collection of high-performance analytic
tools for rich, multi-dimensional approaches to uncovering genetic
causes of disease and other phenotypes.

Several enhancements were key to making genetic research
accessible to a broader research community, including the addition
of a fully integrated, interactive genome browser that enables
Golden Helix customers to directly compare their data and results
with that from industry standard sources such as The Centre for
Applied Genomics’ Database of Genomic Variants or UCSC’s Genome
Browser.

"The fact that a number of existing genome browsers and several
sites provide the same information has been part of the problem,”
said Gabe Rudy, vice president of development at Golden Helix. “The
challenge is that researchers are typically forced to bounce from
site to site or browser to browser to explore their data, because
only pieces of the information reside in any one place. This is both
time consuming and distracting. We think it's best if as much
information as possible resides alongside the researcher’s data for
easy, fast, and interactive comparisons.”

“We've experienced significant growth in customers performing
advanced statistical analysis on non-human genetic data,” said Josh
Forsythe, vice president of sales and marketing. “Until now, there
really haven't been any integrated, easy-to-use tools for this
market. With this new release, researchers studying non-human
genomes can take full advantage of all that SVS has to offer in
terms of data management, analysis, and visualization.”

Lastly, based on an explosion of data from the molecular
cytogenetics realm, Golden Helix has enabled the direct import of
data from NimbleGen’s family of CGH arrays and also Affymetrix’
Cytogenetics Whole-Genome 2.7M and Molecular Inversion Probe (MIP)
arrays. “I am unaware of any segment of the genetic research market
that generates data as quickly or on such a consistent scale as do
cyto labs,” said Forsythe. “This is a virtual treasure-trove of data
and represents tremendous opportunities for understanding more about
the role of genetics in constitutional disorders.”